Bangladesh

The by-election to Patuakhali-1 constituency is set to be held on November 26. Election Commission Secretary Jahangir Alam said the EC announced the schedule of the elections after a meeting of the commissioners on Tuesday. He said the last date for submission of nomination papers is November 1 while the last date for withdrawal of candidature is November 9. On ...

Former High Court judge and Bangladesh Law Commission chairman Md Abdur Rashid died on Tuesday morning. Appellate Division registrar Mohammad Saifur Rahman said that justice Rashid died at United Hospital in Dhaka at about 8:30am. The government appointed Rashid as the chairman of the Commission for three years on April 21, 2009 after he retired as High Court judge. Justice ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina departed for Brussels this morning for a three-day official visit to Belgium to attend the “Global Gateway Forum”, to be held there on October 25-26. She is going to Brussels at the invitation of the European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen. “A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her ...

Durga puja, the largest religious festival of Hindus, will end in Bangladesh with the immersion of idols on Tuesday evening. On the last day of the puja, devotees are thronging mandaps in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country for Bijoya Dashami, the last day of the grand festival, to celebrate the triumph of the Goddess Durga over the buffalo demon ...

At least 20 people were killed and several others were injured after a container train collided with passenger train in Bhairab of Kishoreganj on Monday afternoon. The accident occurred when a container train headed towards Chattogram collided with the Dhaka-bound Egarosindhur Express at the Jagannathpur railway crossing, causing 20 people dead and many other injured. Twenty bodies have, so far, ...

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said BNP is trying to create anarchy in the country ahead of the next general elections. Claiming that the ruling Awami League always respects democratic culture and values, he reiterated that in line with the country’s constitution, the next national elections would be held on time following the democratic process. “We ...

The death toll in a collision between two trains in Bhairab of Kishoreganj has risen to 15. The collision which occurred at around 2:30pm on Monday injured many more, Kishoreganj Superintendent of Police Mohammad Rasel Sheikh confirmed. Four units of the Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) and members of RAB, Railway and district police are conducting rescue operations. FSCD ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the Swiss entrepreneurs to come up with investment at special economic zones (SEZs) in Bangladesh, saying her government wants to develop a broad-based partnership. “We will provide lands (in SEZs). They (Swiss entrepreneurs) can make a mini Switzerland in Bangladesh,” she said when Switzerland Ambassador Reto Siegfried Renggli paid a courtesy call on ...

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has called for immediate action to create a Palestinian state. In a statement released from the Yunus Centre on Sunday, he said: “The conflict between Israel and Palestine is a very old problem which has become much more complicated now because of the treatment that the people of Palestine have been receiving from Israel.” It ...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday described Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming visit to Brussels as “extremely significant” which will help take Bangladesh’s ties with the European Union to a new height. “This is a very significant visit. This is an achievement for us,” he told reporters, noting that the visit is happening at a “crucial moment.” Asked ...